2011 Documentaries: Critic’s Favorites

January 9, 2012
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What are the documentaries that critics liked in 2011?  It depends on who you ask. The POV blog has recently uploaded a Best Documentaries of 2011 chart that attempts to track and synthesize information from several critics lists.

We’ve listed the top 10 from the POV chart below with links to the films we currently own or have on order in our catalog:

  1. The Interrupters
  2. Nostalgia for the Light
  3. Project Nim
  4. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  5. The Arbor
  6. Bill Cunningham New York
  7. Dragonslayer (unreleased)
  8. Senna
  9. Buck
  10. To Hell and Back Again
There are also several others on the list that the library owns including Tabloid, Thunder Soul, How to Die in Oregon, If A Tree Falls, Bombay Beach, Page One: Inside the New York Times, Jane’s Journey, Restrepo, John Muir in the New World, Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward. Some of these movies just received one mention, so keep in mind that they may have less consensus than others at the top of the list.
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2010 Documentaries: Critic’s Favorites

January 26, 2011
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What are the documentaries that critics liked in 2010? We’ve listed some critics polls and awards below with links to the movies we currently own or have on order in our catalog.

The Village Voice has a Year End Film Poll from critics with a documentary category:

1. Exit Through the Gift Shop
2. Sweetgrass
3. The Oath
4. Inside Job
5. Boxing Gym (not yet released)
6. The Tillman Story
(full list)

VH1 broadcast the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards on January 14th, and here’s the movies from their documentary category:

Winner:  Waiting for Superman
Nominee: Exit Through the Gift Shop
Nominee: Inside Job
Nominee: Restrepo
Nominee: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Nominee: The Tillman Story

The website IndieWIRE has a Annual Critics Survey 2010 with a documentary category:

1. Exit Through the Gift Shop
2. Sweetgrass
3. Last Train Home
4. Inside Job
5. The Oath
6. Marwencol
(full list)

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